From: Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:42:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)
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FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)

Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
so in 5.001n).

The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
which might coerce its first arg to a string.
---

diff --git a/t/op/gv.t b/t/op/gv.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ece32d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/op/gv.t
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!./perl
+
+#
+# various typeglob tests
+#
+
+print "1..11\n";
+
+# type coersion on assignment
+$foo = 'foo';
+$bar = *main::foo;
+$bar = $foo;
+print ref(\$bar) eq 'SCALAR' ? "ok 1\n" : "not ok 1\n";
+$foo = *main::bar;
+
+# type coersion (not) on misc ops
+
+if ($foo) {
+  print ref(\$foo) eq 'GLOB' ? "ok 2\n" : "not ok 2\n";
+}
+
+unless ($foo =~ /abcd/) {
+  print ref(\$foo) eq 'GLOB' ? "ok 3\n" : "not ok 3\n";
+}
+
+if ($foo eq '*main::bar') {
+  print ref(\$foo) eq 'GLOB' ? "ok 4\n" : "not ok 4\n";
+}
+
+# type coersion on substitutions that match
+$a = *main::foo;
+$b = $a;
+$a =~ s/^X//;
+print ref(\$a) eq 'GLOB' ? "ok 5\n" : "not ok 5\n";
+$a =~ s/^\*//;
+print $a eq 'main::foo' ? "ok 6\n" : "not ok 6\n";
+print ref(\$b) eq 'GLOB' ? "ok 7\n" : "not ok 7\n";
+
+# typeglobs as lvalues
+substr($foo, 0, 1) = "XXX";
+print ref(\$foo) eq 'SCALAR' ? "ok 8\n" : "not ok 8\n";
+print $foo eq 'XXXmain::bar' ? "ok 9\n" : "not ok 9\n";
+
+# returning glob values
+sub foo {
+  local($bar) = *main::foo;
+  $foo = *main::bar;
+  return ($foo, $bar);
+}
+
+($fuu, $baa) = foo();
+if (defined $fuu) {
+  print ref(\$fuu) eq 'GLOB' ? "ok 10\n" : "not ok 10\n";
+}
+
+if (defined $baa) {
+  print ref(\$baa) eq 'GLOB' ? "ok 11\n" : "not ok 11\n";
+}
+